Bad Quote by Robert Christgau

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

— Neil Drumming

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

— Lisa Scottoline

Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the…

— Richard North Patterson

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more…

— Tom Wolfe

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition…

— Joseph Kanon

If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you may become…

— Brenda Ueland

Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They…

— Claud Cockburn

My experience as a newspaper reporter was invaluable in terms of getting me to the kind of writing I do now. It gave me…

— Michael Connelly

I have always had a hard time revising my work as a journalist, which was never much of a problem. You always have editors…

— Jon Weisman

Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.

— Nora Roberts

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

— Truman Capote

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

— Margaret Atwood